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Invisible Man is just a milestone in American literature, a book that's continued to interact readers since its appearance in 1952.  A first novel by an unknown writer, it remained on the bestseller list for sixteen weeks, won the National Book Award for fiction, and established Ralph Ellison as you of the important thing authors of the century.  The anonymous narrator of the novel describes growing up in a black neighborhood in the South, attending a Negro college where he's expelled, moving to Ny and becoming the principle spokesman of the Harlem branch of "the Brotherhood", and retreating amid violence and confusion to the basement lair of the Invisible Man he imagines himself to be.  The guide is just a passionate and witty tour-de force of style, strongly influenced by T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land, Joyce, and Dostoevsky.